Speaking of foolish, these people wanted this spider to live to be fifty years old! Thankfully someone heard the prayers of sane people everywhere, and now we don’t have to worry about eight-legged overlords.

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And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.

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Yusef drives a Kia
on April 29, 2018 at 7:04 pm

“UBI Treats People, First and Foremost, as Charity Cases”
you Suck, We can………help?

Apropos of nothing, the spousal unit is presently disassembling a bunch of shelves in the kitchen — MY kitchen — for some bizarre reason, interfering with my cooking her a couple of pounds of mussels in white wine and shallots. One of her Orgasmatron dishes.

We went to look at a house and are weighing whether to buy something that is too large and too weird but has so much cool stuff we both like, so it’s a bit confusing.

Solution, I came home and cleaned a pound of shrimp, opened a red, eased into a shot of Jack on ice, and now she’s doing something very Georgia to the shrimp. WestWorld caps the evening.

In the morning I kick off a 20,000 pound mixer I’ve been working on for the past month: tons of controls, material handling, chemical handling and safety stuff; I look forward to creating the six jobs directly attributable to this capital once I get it sorted out and humming.

The girlfriend brought up the idea of expanding the kitchen, which I don’t mind. The issue I had was that she wanted to take the exterior wall (which has the sink and dishwasher against it), and move it out 2 feet. After pointing out the extreme expense for doing something that minor, she backed down. I call that a win.

There’s a rap song which plays in the gym all the time — I’m sure the refrain goes:
“Everybody needs cooking utensils!” (bum-doo-bump-bump-dah-doo-doo)
Is that right? If not, who might guess what they are actually saying ?

OK so Will Farrell as at the LAFC-Seattle match at the new stadium in LA — with a falcon. The announcers say “Will said he’s going to release the falcon and that isn’t a euphemism” – I damn near laugh out a lung.

Under any scenario, the agency plans to use short-term fertility control on the horses whose population it expects to grow to 100,000 by 2019. But it also recommends any approach include permanent sterilization, something most horse advocates find as objectionable as lifting current congressional prohibitions on selling the horses for slaughter.

If in fact things went down as described in Alabama, it sounds pretty bad. However, this is The Root we’re talking about; they have, let’s say, a rather loose relationship with the truth.

But the incident in Philadelphia was anything but inexplicable. Two guys were hanging out, not buying anything, tried to use the bathroom and were refused because they weren’t customers. They were then asked to leave; wouldn’t, so the cops were called. Seems pretty straightforward to me. You can see why anything The Root says should be considered suspect.

The video of the lady getting arrested starts well after the initial confrontation. As usual, The Root gives the most sympathetic explanation for what happened until the video starts. My guess? Lady has a bit of an attitude gets shitty service. Staff doesn’t like it, but serves them anyways. Lady checks and sees no utensils. “Give me my fuckin’ fork and knife!”. Staff uses loophole on menu. “It’s fiddy cents.” Probably would’ve given them for free to a customer they liked, but not this chick.

I had a similar reaction. The writeup was “after only a couple of seconds” and “employees went to get manager’s card and while waiting the police show up”. That doesn’t ring true at all. Nobody goes from zero to call the cops over a polite “can I have the manager’s contact info”.

And then the cell phone video starts well in to the interaction with the police. He’s clearly already told them that they have to leave, and he’s already escalated that request to having his hand on her arm. They are already shouting, so this isn’t 10 seconds into the conversation. Maybe he’s only been there a minute, but more likely he’s been working on them for at least a few minutes before everyone becomes worked up enough to whip out the cell phone.

Still, I’m not sure why he felt the need to take her down like that at that point. There’s a jump cut in the video, so probably there’s a few moments of an attempt to get her to walk out with a bit of physical encouragement after the attempt to get her to voluntarily leave fails.

The law is pretty simple on this one. Once she’s been asked to leave and refuses, she can be arrested for trespass. Even if she’s right in the original dispute over the service she received. Once the police say you have to go, the fight over a plastic fork has to wait for another day.

Separately, the only obvious racism I see here is on the part of “The Root” and their commentariate. Everyone on the video could be flaming racists, but you don’t see any evidence of that. Literally everything that happens could have happened just as it did if there was two Asian cops and a couple of white dudes refusing to leave an Indian restaurant. Well, except for the tube top part. The white dudes wouldn’t have been wearing a tube top.

So… how entertained should I be that old company has posted my ex-position online, and it’s been sitting there for several weeks? I’m already seeing the recruiters grabbing the position and posting about it.

Cons: 1) There’s almost no way it would fit in my shop, I’d have move all sorts of heavy shit to make room. 2) There’s no way a 16″ cutterhead runs on 20A, I’d have to put in a new run of #10 (or heavier) wire. 3) It probably weighs literally a fucking ton, I’d kill myself trying to move it. 4) Honestly, I could get by with a 6″, what the hell do I need with 10 more inches?

Pros: Holy shit, do you see all that cast iron? F15s could take off on the outfeed table. It’s like I’m on the shores of Lake Heavy Fucking Duty, and the water is glassy smooth. I’d be like “oh, yeah, you’ve got an 8″ Powermatic? That’s nice, here’s a nickel, kid.”

Although I do wonder why there’s a comealong supporting the infeed table in the one picture.

What the fuck does race have to do with this? You’re a fat fucking slob and your blubber slid into the seat of the person next to you, knocking her over, and she was pissed. Lose some weight, and if someone bitches again, then you might have something to complain about.

I don’t blame her as much as I blame the reporter(s) who picked up the story. Someone with a blog complaining about something is nothing new. Covering it as if it is news is another matter. And then coloring it as if it is a serious story of racial discrimination and using the “context” of other “incidents of racism” that have been reported recently borders on slander.

Her own version of her story points out that she comes into the plane looking for a conflict over her weight and seeing her seatmate only based on her race. If you wanted to write a story, there is one smacking you in the face. Our blogist boldly states that she’s already decided that the woman next to her is a racist based solely on her appearance the moment she arrives at her row – but the reporter chooses to color the whole thing as if the person with the blog is a victim of rampant corporate racism. Heck, there isn’t even an allegation that the company has anything to do with this other than passing along a call for the police from a passenger and providing seats that are too small to share comfortable with someone who is morbidly obese and has a chip on her shoulder.

Love the Marvel movies. Saw Infinity War last night and can’t say I loved it because that would be really fucked up, but…yeah. I don’t want to give away any spoilers. It’s been 24 hours and I’m still trying to process it.

Having lived under a rock for most of my life, I had never actually heard of this incident until now. That trademark earnestly concerned passive voice that public radio is so known for was cranked up to eleven, and it had me in fucking stitches. It also made me realize that people just really don’t do quality grievance mongering like they used to in the nineties. Step up your intersectional game, slackers!

I think Michelle Wolf’s comic timing is even worse than Samantha Bee’s. And these jokes are as lazy as SNL’s political jokes. It’s like you’re taking news headlines and the “jokes” are just the most common analysis of those stories—i.e. not jokes, not funny, not even good analysis.

Won’t see Infinity War till Tuesday, because the local theater will only have a 2D screening then, and I already had to drive all the way to GB to see Super Troopers 2 last week because the local theater didn’t carry it.

An interesting quote from Max Planck about science but I think it may apply to other circumstances with just a little tweaking.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.